Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The lady had dropped her napkin. More accurately, she had hurled it to the floor in a fit of disillusionment, her small protest against the slow creep of mediocrity and missed cues during a four-hour dinner at Per Se that would cost the four of us close to $3,000. Some time later, a passing server…
Until recently, alcohol, like energy-dense food, was viewed as fundamentally different from tobacco in the sense that a little of what you like is fine. This contrasted with no safe level for smoking. But the new health evidence underpinning the latest alcohol guidelines in the United Kingdom suggests that it may have much more in…
As a college student in New York City, I marveled that the city let me eat poached eggs with halloumi cheese and Moroccan spiced pita for breakfast, a spicy-sweet minced meat salad from northern Thailand for lunch, and Singaporean nasi lemak for dinner. My requisites were pretty straightforward: delicious, cheap and served in bulk. But…
A grand jury has subpoenaed Chipotle Mexican Grill in an investigation of a norovirus outbreak, and the chain warned investors Wednesday the fallout from increased media attention about foodborne illness has hammered its sales. Comparable restaurant sales nosedived 14.6 percent during the fourth quarter, the chain said in a filing Wednesday. This metric dropped as…
I was sitting in a sauna with my buddy Matt, batting around fatty ideas for dinner after our strenuous 20 minute sit-in-simulated-hot-weather-session. And that’s when it came to us: The In-N-Out Pie. We knew we had some pre-made dough already stashed in our fridge, which got us to thinking…was there a way we could turn In-N-Out Burger ingredients into…
Earlier this month, a food blogger published a four part series accusing the Mast Brothers of falsely claiming that their overpriced chocolate has always been made from scratch. The hipster, bearded chocolatiers claimed their chocolate was “bean to bar” but chocolate experts claimed “If you were to ask the world’s top chocolate reviewers to rate…
Whether you’ve seen their beautifully wrapped bars for sale at Shake Shack or Rag & Bone, featured in the pages of the New York Times or Vogue, or decorating one of their New York, London, or soon, LA shops, Mast Brothers chocolate bars have become the world’s most prominent brand of artisanal chocolate. But while…
Look at this thing. Just look at it. This is a thing people claim is “good.” They seem to enjoy that sour, wet crunch of this pukish-green, kinda transparent (?) fake vegetable. People with that bad taste. Trash people. Because this a trash food for a trash person. Not liking pickles is like being the…
SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand (AP) — Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat: Get up or get beaten. For the next 16 hours, No. 31 and his wife stood in the factory that owned them with their aching hands in ice water. They ripped the guts, heads, tails…
At least 80 Boston College students got sick after eating at a Chipotle restaurant in Boston, and health officials believe the food-borne illness is norovirus. Illnesses linked to the chain have been reported in up to nine other states in the past month. (AP) Last month, Chipotle closed 43 restaurants in Washington and Oregon after health authorities…